Lola Butcher

The American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Society of Hematology are joining other medical groups to protest the elimination of consultation codes in the Medicare program.

After the first year of a national demonstration project, primary-care physicians experimenting with shared decisionmaking are enthusiastic about the practice’s potential—and acutely aware of the barriers to fulfilling its promise.

The new Performance in Practice (PIP) component of the Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process will be required for board-certified neurologists and child-neurologists due for recertification in 2014.

As shown throughout this Leadership report, forward-looking leaders recognize that making dramatic improvements requires knocking down silo-based cultures, discouraging finger-pointing, and encouraging the spread of ideas, data, and best practices.

Smiley Thakur, MD, has fewer patients than he would like. But 18 months after the Seattle nephrologist opted out of the Medicare program, he said he does not regret the decision. “As a physician, you have to decide at what point it’s not possible to…

Physicians love their iPhones and the hundreds of medical applications that allow them to work smarter and faster. Although details about Apple’s next big thing—the iPad electronic tablet—are still sketchy, some tech-savvy medical experts think it may be even more helpful to physicians.